Top 5 Startup Investors in Colombia (July 2026)

Kai Schmitz is Investment Lead for the Global FinTech Investment Group of IFC, the largest Fintech investor in emerging markets. He is responsible for equity and debt investments in emerging market Fintech companies, with focus on Payments and Online Lenders. In Latin America, he worked on Fintech investments in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Mexio,and Uruguay. Kai is a Board member or advisor at different FinTech and financial services companies in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the US, including companies in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Before joining IFC, Kai worked at the Payment Systems Development Group of the World Bank, advising central banks, other government agencies and multilateral organizations such as the G20 DWG on payment market regulation. Previously he was co-founder and Executive Vice President/COO of MFIC, a financial services platform in the US targeted at immigrants from Latin America, and co-founded a remittance company in London called Money Systems. Originally a lawyer, he worked at law firms in London and Hamburg.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
Geography: Brazil, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

Total investments: 20
Round size: Series A $2.6M–$4.9M; Series B $3.2M–$20M; Series C $15M–$50M
Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

Neivor — Neivor is changing the way property owners, renters and HOAs make and accept payments in residential and multifamily buildings in Latin America. Neivor eliminates the friction and inefficiencies currently generated from disparate payment flows and cash-based transactions. With our mobile-centric engagement platform, building managers manage theirresident-facing tasks via a single app and residents make payments and keep up with everything happening in their residential communities.
Minka — A cloud based platform that allows to move money in real time to build the financial solutions of today and future. Real time payments, alias directory, payment switch, ledger as a service and more.
Contabilizei — Contabilizei offers an online accounting service for small and micro enterprises. The company positively impacted the lives of thousands of micro and small businesses by implementing cost-effective, intelligent online accounting. Fábio Bacarin and Vitor Torres founded it in January 2014, with its headquarters in Curitiba in Brazil.

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Investment focus

Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
Geography: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia

Investor stats

Total investments: 207
Round size: Seed $2.1M–$10M; Series A $5M–$32M; Series B $12M–$100M
Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $435M in 2023

Portfolio highlights

Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
Exactly — Exactly Protocol is a decentralized, non-custodial, open-source protocol providing an autonomous fixed and variable interest rate market.
Comp — Strategy in every penny invested in your people.Comp is an agile partner that combines compensation and technology experts to align your Total Rewards strategy with business needs.From labor cost strategy to process automation, we are helping hundreds of innovative companies with job and salary management, short- and long-term incentives, meritcycles, people budgeting and more.

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Colle Capital Partners is a global, opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. Managers have dealt in various verticals and across capital structures.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

Total investments: 94
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Series A $5M–$21M; Series B $3.7M–$126M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

Itera — Itera provides digital consulting, AI, cloud, software development and technology services for businesses across industries.
Bread Financial — Bread Financial offers personalized payment, lending, and savings solutions. They provide customers and partners with a wide range of digitally enabled options that are easy, empowered, and flexible financially. Their service includes credit card facility, loan options, and flexible payment options.
Dandelion Health AI — Dandelion Health AI develops a clinical data and artificial intelligence platform that enables life sciences companies and researchers to analyze real-world patient data and accelerate drug development and clinical research. The company provides a precision medicine platform that aggregates multimodal healthcare data, including clinical notes,medical images, and physiological waveforms, into a unified dataset representing patient journeys over time. Its platform applies validated AI models to transform large volumes of unstructured clinical data into structured, research-ready datasets, allowing researchers to uncover insights into disease progression, treatment effectiveness, and patient outcomes. This capability enables more comprehensive analysis compared to traditional datasets that rely primarily on structured records such as claims or diagnostic codes.

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Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossoverstrategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 903
Round size: Series A $6.5M–$50M; Series B $17M–$130M; Series C $26M–$260M
Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $2.2B in 2024

Portfolio highlights

Chaayos — Your one stop shop for all your Chai Cravings. Easy way to buy out Masala Tea, Instant Tea, Green Teas and Tea Gifts.
MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.

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